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In this chapter, the basic geometric definitions needed to develop the shell FEs are provided. The shell can be intuitively but imprecisely defined as a 3D body, which has one dimension much smaller than the other two. More precisely, the shell is a surface in a 3D space equipped with a thickness, which is much smaller than the size of the surface. This implies a specific geometrical description of shells.
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Wiśniewski, K. (2009). Basic geometric definitions for shells. In: Wiśniewski, K. (eds) Finite Rotation Shells. Lecture Notes on Numerical Methods in Engineering and Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8761-4_5
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